This is probably the clearest tutorial I have seen in a long, long time for Sketchup. I have a suggestion for aligning the text to the cylinder. Add an axis line to the top of the cylinder and then group everything. Before you delete the arc do the same .. connect the ends, find the center and add an axis line extending up. Now .. delete the axis and straight lines .. grab the cylinder by the axis line .. and bring it over and snap it to the axis line for the arc. That should be a perfect alignment (theoretically as I haven't done it yet). Un-group the cylinder and delete the axis line .. delete the curve axis line and you SHOULD be good to go.
Hi Chris, I'm just starting to use Fullmer's Shape Bender tool. Can you address how to make the cylinder and text a watertight shape after we mate the surface of the text with the cylinder? It seems the curved shapes that Shape Bender generates are not solid groups, which doesn't exactly help us for 3d printing. Maybe I'm missing something. Thanks.
Well, what I h ave is a jpg of some artwork that essentially needs to be embossed onto the inside of a curved surface. What I'm doing is making a heat-stamp to imprint a company logo onto these tubular candle-like products. Will I have to just trace out the artwork into objects, then pull/push them into solids, then group them? Or is there an easy way?
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This is probably the clearest tutorial I have seen in a long, long time for Sketchup. I have a suggestion for aligning the text to the cylinder. Add an axis line to the top of the cylinder and then group everything. Before you delete the arc do the same .. connect the ends, find the center and add an axis line extending up. Now .. delete the axis and straight lines .. grab the cylinder by the axis line .. and bring it over and snap it to the axis line for the arc. That should be a perfect alignment (theoretically as I haven't done it yet). Un-group the cylinder and delete the axis line .. delete the curve axis line and you SHOULD be good to go.
Nice tutorial... I just wanted to bend a large box onto an already bended corner from other box and worked like a charm. Thanks!
Thank you ! I was looking for this like crazy !
Hi Chris,
I'm just starting to use Fullmer's Shape Bender tool. Can you address how to make the cylinder and text a watertight shape after we mate the surface of the text with the cylinder? It seems the curved shapes that Shape Bender generates are not solid groups, which doesn't exactly help us for 3d printing. Maybe I'm missing something.
Thanks.
Does this work with objects other than text objects?
What if it's artwork that we're looking to wrap around a cylinder or curved surface?
Well, what I h ave is a jpg of some artwork that essentially needs to be embossed onto the inside of a curved surface.
What I'm doing is making a heat-stamp to imprint a company logo onto these tubular candle-like products.
Will I have to just trace out the artwork into objects, then pull/push them into solids, then group them? Or is there an easy way?
can u share how to make a text curve from begining..
awesome..thanks..